A few years ago, I planted 3 dwarf sweet cherry trees. 2 years ago, they were big enough to produce a little but we lost them to frost 2 years in a row. Finally, this year - success. I picked 7 gal yesterday and the 3d tree will be ready in a week. It'll probably have 2 gal on it. We lost maybe a gal or so when the wind tore the net off 1 of the trees while we were gone and the #$%^& robins ruined them. I wouldn't mind them eating some cherries but they just peck each one. The ruin far more than they eat.

We just bag and freeze them right off the tree. We eat them when they're still partly frozen. It's quick, easy, and delicious.

These trees are replacements for 2 standard sized trees I took out a few years ago. They were too big to pick for an old coot. Also they were too big to net and around here, you net them or lose them to the birds.

Do they still grow cherries in the canyon by Clear Lakes? Used to go down there and pick up what we needed. I love cherries, but growing up in an orchard, I seem to have developed an allergy to cultivating fruit trees.....

That allergy comment is sorta funny Dutch.

RockChuck, Do you remember what variety of dwarf trees you planted? I'm always looking for another tree to plant. Lost the first cherry tree here to a gopher eating the roots the first winter it was in the ground. Planted 5 trees across the creek in our good dirt this spring. They have a 1/2 in hardware cloth cage around the planting hole.

I planted some on my property in Maine. We were pretty much past the zone Where they could grow but I’m found the most cold hearty species I could. A friend who lived just up the road from me did the same. Mine ended up growing but his died. Maybe he didn’t care for his the same as me, IDK.

At any rate, cherries are my all time favorite fruit bearing tree. Beautiful to look at and the fruit is wonderful. Enjoy.

Val, mind you this was long, long ago, in a country, far, far away, but the size of the fruit tree is pretty much unrelated to the variety. Fruit trees are t-budded onto rootstock, and the rootstock determines the growth of the tree. So you can have the same variety on dwarf, semi-dwarf or full size. Just depends what rootstock they use.

I'm happy for you

For the second year in a row, frost got all my peaches